Chopsticks

11/23 - We love Chinese food...especially Pei Wei.  But everyone knows that you have to use chopsticks when you are eating Chinese food...it's just the rules.  (Of course it's ok to use a fork to get the last bits of rice that are too small for chopsticks...I really don't see how people who use only chopsticks do it).  Anyway, a buddy of Mike's at work who is Korean, gave Wes these awesome training chopsticks (Cora got a pink pair...though I think I'll save her's for a while).  Here he is giving them a shot.  You can see, he got the hang of  it pretty quickly :)

Here We Go Again (...well, just for a bit)

Well here I am again...back to blogging.  Well, more like trying to finish blogging.  I had a goal of finishing Cora's first year of life while I was on leave from flying and here it is nearly two years later! My last post was February 2013 and I was blogging about November 2012, and now it's September 2014 and I'm back trying to finish out 2012.  Wow...if that's not slacking, I'm not sure what is.  Cliche alert...but life happens and things get in the way.  But I'm going to finish 2012 if it kills me and at this rate, that just might happen!
So here goes, It's just a small couple of weeks to finish, but of course we crammed them full of fun stuff.  Hopefully I can get the gears in my head turning so I can remember what we did!
Denise

Happy Thanksgiving!

Since Daddy was working this Thanksgiving, we spent our Turkey day at the fire house with our fire family.  We did spent an hour or so after naps at Grammy's house before we headed to Fullerton, so we got to tell everyone how thankful we are for them!

Michael "volunteered" to make some of the turkey's, so as any good chef knows, the key to a successful bird is definitely the brine.  Here's Wes getting a little lesson.

Cora and her Daddy.  Look at those curls, those are definitely from him!

Wes and his good buddies Damien and Dylan, doing what they do best.  Climbing on and exploring the fire engines.

Yum!  Everything (and there was a ton of food) was of course delicious!  

I love Thanksgiving...the food, the family, the pumpkin pie...but I especially love remembering all the things God has blessed us with.  

1 Chronicles 16:34

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Goodbye Hostess

It's old news now, but when Hostess decided to close it's doors, we had a fitting send off for them.  A Hostess outlet is (was) in Fullerton and while Daddy was at work, his crew stopped by to see if they could pick up a few last treats.  He said it was like the Apocalypse had happened...the shelves were ransacked and the customers were all in a frenzy!  But he managed to grab a box of donettes and Dunkin' Stix for us and a few other things for the Fire Station.  

 Wes has had donettes (in the small sleeve from the 7/11) one other time and he was really excited when Dad came home from work with this whole box!

Cora's first and probably last time having a Hostess donette.

And these little babies bring back some serious high school memories for me!  I don't remember buying anything from the school lunch line other than chocolate chip cookies and Dunkin' Stix (this post is making me sound terrible!  We are really a whole wheat bread/brown rice/spinach kind of family, I promise!)  

But here's a little peek at the real reason Hostess went out of business...not very good for you.  I think too many people have realized you just can't eat this way.  Though I did today, and I really enjoyed it too!  Goodbye Hostess, thanks for the Twinkie, Ding Dong, Snow Ball, and of course Dunkin' Stix memories.

Happy Birthday Cash!

We celebrated Cash's 3rd birthday with a trip to Knott's Berry Farm!  Grammy got us season passes for Christmas (we were going through theme park withdrawals since our Disneyland passes had expired, and since Knott's passes were $69 for the year versus $250+ at Disney, we figured we'd give it a shot!)  We had a great day and of course spent most of it in Camp Snoopy.  The kids had a blast and we adults had fun reminiscing since, though Knott's has changed a lot, some things will always be the same...like the train robbers below!!

 Cash and Wes spinning their brains out.

Looking forward to a fun year here...and a couple of meals at The Chicken Dinner Restaurant!!

Dirt

When I was pregnant with Cora and I found out she was a girl, I think one of the things I was most excited about was getting a break from digging in the dirt...I assumed she wouldn't be interested and that Wes would have grown out of it.  Boy was I wrong!!  Wes loves digging and playing in the dirt as much as ever and Cora might love it as much has him.  At least now they dig together, so in a way I'm getting my break.  I guess I should have know that boys never grow out of getting dirty and with a personality like Cora's, she couldn't be held back from doing exactly what her big brother was doing!

Funny Face!

Cora loves bath time and I love all that hair, it makes for some crazy 'do's!